Announcements after Worship-10-8-23
Meeting Announcements
Links in announcements below are to webpages, not Zoom links.
From Religious Education:
Monday Oct 9, 7:00 pm, Value of Faithfulness Groups: A faithfulness Group is 4 to 6 Friends who meet regularly to support one another on their spiritual paths. Our Meeting has three such groups. Representatives from each group will form a panel to share their experiences. We hope by sharing the richness of this experience, others may be led to join or start a group.
Monday Oct 23 at 7:00 pm, Spiritual Journey Group Sharing: Our worship sharing will be on the spiritual journey, but it will include all who are present.
Monday Oct 30, 7:00 pm, Pendle Hill Pamphlet Discussion: Each 5th Monday we have a Pendle Hill pamphlet discussion. Our next one will be Ben Pink Dandelion's Confident Quakerism. Please mark your calendar and let one of the Religious Education committee know if you'd like a copy. There will be plenty. We're hoping this and several pamphlets to follow will highlight Quaker essentials.
From Online Communication Committee:
New Website - roanokequakers.org We are still looking for recent photos. Please sent them to our New email address: friends@roanokequakers.org
From Ministry and Counsel:
The Friendly Eights ride again! Would you like to get to know other Friends in the Meeting better? Friendly Eights are monthly gatherings in homes, at which eight Friends get together for a potluck and worship-sharing. (If you don’t want to host an F8, you don’t have to). Children are welcome. They meet from October to May. If there is interest in the Meeting from more than eight Friends, we will organize additional Friendly Eights. Gary Sandman will convene the first Friendly Eight, scheduled for the third Friday of each month at 6 PM, starting October 20. Gary can be contacted at 540-492-3582.
Monday, Oct 16 (3rd Monday), 6:30 pm, Quaker Reading Group, on Zoom. All are welcome. If you have not read the Journal or would like to revisit it, this is a great time to join us. We are continuing with John Woolman on his journey to England at the end of Journal Chapter 11 (pp. 174 m-180, Moulton ed.). With Chapter 12, we will conclude his Journal. We respond to the reading in a worship-sharing format, speaking from our own experience. If you’d like the zoom link or a copy of the reading, contact Mike Heller.
Transportation help needed - There are Friends in our community who need help with rides, particularly to Meeting for Worship on Sundays. If you are willing to serve in this way, please contact Tony Martin.
Update on Genevieve Waring: Genevieve, a founder of our Meeting, will be 99 years old on January 5. She had hip surgery on October 1, which went very well, with no complications. Genevieve is now in Friendship Rehab South, Room 415, at 5647 Starkey Rd. Roanoke. Genevieve loves to have visitors. Weekends are the best time to visit. On weekdays, mid-afternoons are best, when she is more likely to be in the room. For more information, call Connie Waring.
From the Announcement Team: Please send submissions for announcements to our new email address: friends@roanokequakers.org by Saturday to be included in Sunday’s announcements.
Other Announcements
Thursday, Oct 12, 6:30 pm, Reparations Book Group: All are welcome to join us for our next meeting, in-person at the Quaker Meetinghouse. We will discuss Duke Kwon and Gregory Thompson’s Reparations, Chapter 1. We have extra copies of the book if you need one. For more information contact Charlyn Griffin, charlynot3@gmail.com, or Mike Heller.
Saturday, Oct 21 at the June Bug in Floyd: Scott Haugh is in the Agatha Christie play Then There Were None. It’s a murder mystery in time for Halloween. Shall we get a group to go together to see if we can figure whodunnit?
Saturday, November 4 at 2 PM. Joyce Rouse will present a program concerning love for the earth at Brandon Oaks Retirement Community. The program will include Joyce performing many of the songs which she has written. For those who feel downtrodden at times by the news about our environmental crisis, Joyce's words and songs are a balm. She reminds us why we need to fight for and support Mother Earth.
Please attend and bring your families, especially teens and children. There is no charge.
Address: 3804 Brandon Avenue, Roanoke, VA in the auditorium accessed through the main portico. Questions: Sharon Custer-Boggess, 540-776-2152.
Friends of Evans Spring If you are not on the Friends of Evans Spring email list and would like to be please contact friendsofevansspring@gmail.com to be added to their information and mailing list. There is an effort on getting as many signatures as possible with a focus on those who live in the NW quadrant of the city. IF you know individuals who live in that area consider reaching out to them personally. I know several congregations have printed out petitions for their members/friends to sign and submitted them to Stephen Niamke. Here is the link to the petition. (from Joy Sylvester-Johnson)
Joys and Concerns, Gratitude & Requests
Joys:
Surprise visit of children & grandchildren for Patsy & Tony
Day Avenue Block Party - meeting many of our neighbors!
Visiting Genevieve & seeing her delight at a daylily.
Art Opening for Rachel Anne at Art on First
Having Marsha Winters and her friend Anya with us, from the Floyd Meeting
Please hold in the Light:
Letty Collins who had a bad fall last week
George Squires
Genevieve Waring who is in Rehab recovering from hip surgery. Please also hold her daughter Connie and son Doug at this stressful time.
Mike’s friend Gloria Randolph-King, Vice President of local NAACP who is in hospice at home & her daughter Monique
Kirk Whitt and family as he recovers from surgery
Peter Chapman, shoulder surgery on Oct 17
Tony and Patsy’s friend Denis who is in hospice, and his wife Ellen
West coast Friend, Carl MacGruder who is recovering from a serious motorcycle accident
Concerns:
Transportation needed to worship on Sundays for a couple Friends in our community.
Gratitude:
Joyce Rouse’s wonderful program last week
Request:
George Squires (with his small dog) needs to find a new housing arrangement. If you have ideas for him to find something reasonable to rent, contact him.
Worship Opportunities
Saturday Quaker Worship at 10:30 am: All are welcome each Saturday at Highland Park, Alexander-Gish House, near the entrance to the parking lot on Walnut Avenue SW just off Fifth Street. Please bring a chair if you can. Because the Meetinghouse is now open on Sundays, only a few regulars attend on Saturdays. If you come irregularly or are new, you are advised to check ahead and be sure some of the regulars will be there. You can check by calling or texting Paul Hibschman at 540-578-5593.
Worship on Zoom and In-Person continues every Sunday at 10:30: We are so pleased that we can continue to worship either on Zoom or in-person in the meetinghouse on Sunday mornings! Masks are no longer required. Unvaccinated participants are welcome and are encouraged to wear a mask. Masks are available in the Meetinghouse. Social distancing is recommended.
Meeting Links: * Link to Roanoke Friends Meeting Website; Facebook Page; Facebook Group
Faithfully submitted by Patsy Martin and Mike Heller
